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This spring seems to have been the season for many new beauty launches, whether it be high end, or drugstore. Every time I go shopping, I find something new and interesting to try, and that is how I stumbled upon the Covergirl Vitalist Healthy Elixir Foundation. It was hiding way back in the corner of my local CVS, and if I hadn't been in that area for something else, I would have completely missed it! 

A Wednesday post?!? That's right. I wanted to share part two of my "Lashes for Glasses" series, this time featuring SocialEyes lashes. If you missed it, my last post was part one of this series, where I talked all about XOBeauty lashes. Once again, I really wanted to find something that was comfortable, didn't hit my lenses, or shift too much because of my lenses. So, did the lashes work out?

Wearing glasses is already difficult enough on most days, but it gets even harder for those of us who just want a bit of extra oomph to our lashes. I will never forget the first time I decided to throw on a pair of falsies. They looked full, luscious, and just flat out gorgeous, and then I put my glasses on. They constantly hit my lenses, which made me constantly notice them, and made the lashes themselves shift and annoy me more than they should have. So, in the last few weeks I put some false lashes from XOBeauty and SocialEyes to the test to see if I could find the perfect pair for glasses wearers. Today, we are going to focus on XOBeauty!

As I'm sure everyone knows, Wet 'N Wild released the new Photo Focus Foundation, and I just had to give it a try. I feel like I am extremely late to the party with this one, but it took me forever to get my hands on it, due to it either being sold out or just not available. I did, however, end up snagging it at my local Meijer, and let me tell you, I think I have a new favorite foundation!

 I know I'm a bit late to the whole New Years resolution thing, but I have decided that 2017 is going to be the year that I get all my ducks in a row, or at least as much as a 22 year old can. I've never been very good at keeping things organized, or keeping track of finances as closely as I maybe should. I've tried using all kinds of different apps, and planners, and nothing really ever suited what I was looking for. Not to mention how unpleasing most planners were to look at. 

 I was scrolling through Instagram and Pinterest one day, and I kept seeing these things called a Bullet Journal. Essentially, you are creating your own life planner. If you've never seen some of the amazing journals on Instagram, you need to go check them out. They're pretty addicting to look at, and really make you want to get your sh*! together, which is exactly what I plan on doing.

The above photo is my first page. I love that I can just doodle all over this thing and no one can say i am doing it wrong! I spent a few weeks going over different ideas on how I wanted to set my journal up, and figuring out what kind of journal I wanted to use. From what I have seen, a lot of people use moleskin, dotted grid notebooks. Let me tell you, unless you are willing to wait to have one shipped, they are not easy to track down. I gave up after two days of looking for one, and decided to just get a lined notebook that I ended up finding at Meijer.

I also picked up some Paper Mate Flair felt tip markers in the Tropical Vacation colors, and some fine tip black marker pens to use in my journal. I do have to say, the one thing I regret not taking into consideration when picking this up is that the paper is really thin. While none of my pens bleed through too badly, the paper is quite see through. You live and you learn, right?

The Setup

A Year At A Glance

Savings Goal

I decided this year would be the year I seriously crack down on cutting down my spending, and upping my savings game. I liked the idea of visually seeing how much money I am saving in something other than a dollar amount. At the bottom of this page I wrote what my goal is for each month, and then I can color in each month accordingly. Now, because I know some months I won't hit that goal, and I decided I will just fill any "empty areas" in grey, and when I do sit money aside I'll alternate colors each month. What a fun way to keep track of your savings goal!

Year In Pixels

Welcome To February

Week One